This blog will serve as a way for me to share pictures I and others have taken of the diversity of life in the extreme environments I have experienced and of places I wish to visit. My motivations regarding this can be found on the post "Extreme Environments" on my other blog "Ericaceaesd" available via blogger. I hope you all enjoy. I will try to post a new photo at least once a day.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Poppies, poppies, poppies....

Arctic poppies (Papaver lapponicum) against an arctic summer sky. No, they don't produce any opiats, nor did they make us sleepy. They are heliotropic (sun following) though, and provide a nice place for insects to warm up; both traits I find cool